Classic travel writing books

This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert...  Read More >>

In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson took month-and-a-half-long tour of California - an interlude that became...  Read More >>

‘One of the non-fiction books of the year.’ Andrew O’ Hagan A powerful, evocative and...  Read More >>

'Lugworm on the Loose' describes how Ken and B quit the ‘rat race’ and explored the Greek islands ­under sail. 'Lugworm...  Read More >>

Edward Allcard's epic two crossings of the Atlantic in the mid-twentieth century in his thirty-four-foot, forty-year-old...  Read More >>

Recounting Alf Bonnevie Bryn and George Ingle Finch's memorable trip to Corsica in 1909, Peaks and Bandits is a...  Read More >>

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Guy Kennaway's novel about Jamaican life and culture is set in the fictional village of Angel Beach. It is an affectionate...  Read More >>

Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. She was determined to make use of...  Read More >>

"This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court,...  Read More >>

This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios,...  Read More >>

Part travelogue, part spiritual self-help book; A modern-day pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world.  Read More >>

English Travellers to Venice 1450 –1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations)...  Read More >>

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The...  Read More >>

A new edition of an irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic, from the author of The Gran Tour.  Read More >>

A riotous, witty travelogue documenting the authors' experiences in Britain in the early 1900s, from an African...  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love...  Read More >>

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This is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived...  Read More >>

Shooting an Elephant tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant....  Read More >>

The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary...  Read More >>

First English translation of La Galilee, an account of Pierre Loti’s travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to...  Read More >>

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north...  Read More >>

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north...  Read More >>

In this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take...  Read More >>